Improvement in wringing-machines



3. e.- BALDWIN & A. LPARKHURST.

' WRINGING-MACHINES.

No. 193,682. Pmma July s1',1 s77.

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RANSON G. BALDWIN AND ANDREW J. PARKHURST, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA;

" SAID BALDWIN ASSIGNOR TO SAID PARKHURST.

IMPROVEMENT IN WRlNGlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,682, dated July 31, 1877 application file'd March 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HANSON G. BALDWIN and ANDREW J. PARKHUKST, or Oskaloosa, in the county of Mahaska and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in WringingMachines and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved wringing-machiue complete. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section, and Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section, of the machine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to clothes-wringing machines; and it consists in certain improvements in the mechanism for adjusting the rollers in relation to each other, as hereinafter more fully shown and specified.

In the drawing, A is the frame of the machine. B B arethe rollers, thelower of which,

B, has its hearings in the side pieces Ct at of frame A, while the bearings O G for the upper roll B slide, in the usual manner, in sidepieces a a, the upper ends of which are forked, as shown at b.

On top of the blocks (10, which form the bearings for roll B, we place a presser-plate, D, having a groove or guideway, d. G is a curved rack, having on its under side a ridge, 0, which fits into the groove dof presser-plate D, in which it slides. The rack Gris operated by a cog-lever, H, which is pivoted upon a pin or bolt, e, that passes through the upper heavy clothing passing between them, the,

bearings O O of the upper roll sliding up in the forked side pieces a a; but when the lever is depressed to either side, the result naturally is that the rolls are forced together to any desired extent, which is regulated by the lever.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- Thecombination of the presser-plate D having groove 01, rack G having ridge 0, framepieces ff having butts g g, and pivoted coglever H, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto aflixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HANSON G. BALDWIN. ANDREW J. PARKHURST.

Witnesses to the signature of Baldwin:

J AS. L. DOWNING, A. M. JOHNSON.

Witnesses to the signature of Parkhurst:

R. G. BALDWIN, W. F. MARK. 

